Josephine Tovey, Amy McNeilage
The proportion of students studying a foreign language for the Higher School Certificate is at a historic low and less than a fifth of what it was during the 1950s, new data shows.

Josephine Tovey
It has lasted for most of 2013, prompted staff picket lines on campus and seen police drag protesters from lecture theatres, but a long-running industrial dispute at Australia’s oldest university is...

Josephine Tovey, Kirsty Needham
Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has rejected claims of a school enrolment ''crisis'' in inner Sydney or that new schools are urgently needed, arguing families may have to travel longer distances to...

Daniel Hurst, Josephine Tovey
The Abbott government plans a drastic overhaul of the higher education system, including axeing the compulsory fee collected by universities to support student services and scrapping Labor's targets...

Josephine Tovey
The NSW Board of Studies and the NSW Institute of Teachers will be merged to create a single new statutory authority with the aim of improving teacher quality and student outcomes, in a major...

Josephine Tovey
Primary student results in national reading tests have improved over the past five years, a new report shows, but a printing error means parents will have to wait several weeks to find out how their...

Josephine Tovey
The number of children being taught at home in NSW has ballooned by 65 per cent in four years, with many parents citing bullying, philosophical objections to schooling and a desire for personal...

Josephine Tovey
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney has told staff he was ''distressed'' to see the work of a renowned philosophy academic from the university unfairly ridiculed by the Coalition as an...

Josephine Tovey
Controversial laws that allow private schools to expel students because they are gay could be abolished if the two main parties are allowed a conscience vote on the issue, the MP seeking to overturn...

Josephine Tovey, Amy McNeilage
Underperforming teachers could be identified and sacked with greater ease under new teacher quality reform measures Education Minister Adrian Piccoli described as more in line with a ''private...